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  • often considered to be a vegetable.

  • The tomato is actually a fruit.

  • It's grown from the ovary of the plant, and it has seats.

  • It's also the most popular one on the planet.

  • Automation of the counting process in the last century has made that possible, ensuring that tomatoes preserve their number one slot.

  • There are over 2000 varieties for accounting purposes.

  • They grow a type with a thick skin and firm consistency, so machinery compare.

  • Consult them without damaging the flash.

  • Rotating clippers cut the vine as the harvester drives over.

  • Crop once called plans travel on an elevator belt open to the harvester.

  • Inside the harvester, metal prongs shaped the tomatoes to free them from the vines.

  • On Elektronik, Color Sorter rejects the Green ones.

  • Conveyor transfers the red ripe tomatoes to a trailer traveling alongside the harvester.

  • Once they have a load of 22 tonnes, they deliver the tomatoes to the cunning factory.

  • Here they fill the trailer with water to float the tomatoes out through a door at the side.

  • The water, dirty from residual soil, drains away through the slats.

  • In the booth.

  • Tomatoes land in a clean, water filled channel and hear any rocks sink to the bottom and are removed.

  • The tomatoes float into a big tank, where jets churn up the water for a more gentle cleansing action.

  • The tomatoes then head up to a sorting line and travel over metal bones.

  • Smaller tomatoes full through the gaps.

  • They'll be used to make tomato juice.

  • The others fly on past 60 tiny cameras that detect pale or yellows, tomatoes, pneumatic fingers.

  • Not those tomatoes out of the batch.

  • It all happens in less than a second.

  • Now it's the human eye that inspects the tomatoes.

  • They send any rejects to another part of the factory to make juice.

  • The rest take the plunge into a very hot bath.

  • This scolds the tomatoes and listens.

  • The skins tomatoes then travel on a moving bed of rubber disks.

  • On this gently pulls the skins away from the tomatoes.

  • A spray of water washes away the skins, which then full through the rubber desks.

  • This ensures no masses left.

  • After peeling, the now peel tomatoes travel on to another conveyor, where sprayers give them another ends.

  • This conveyor controls the flow of peeled tomatoes into the processing room by meeting the produce as it moves forward ahead.

  • The dice awaits.

  • It has three sets of cross cutting blades to make light work of tomatoes.

  • Tomatoes tumble down a chute into the dicer on a chopped into small cubes.

  • The dice tomatoes pass workers who pick out pieces that aren't perfectly red.

  • They also remove any pieces, of course, leaving the cleaning station Ken's queue up for a fellow hand.

  • Ducks.

  • Tomatoes flow into metal pockets.

  • This portions the mild ready for the cans.

  • The pockets will take forward to meet the cans, now moving in sync below on the bottoms of the pockets open to release the contents into the canvas.

  • They add hot tomato juice and flavorings.

  • Lids advanced towards the open cans.

  • They land on top on a machine, prints the lids to the count's, creating a double scene for a complete seal.

  • Now, in airtight can'ts, tomatoes head into a hot oven for a quick cooking, which sterilizes them, removing the need to use preservatives.

  • Cans now get their labels.

  • They spin across wheels that apply glue to the sites and then roll over paper labels, which is dear to the gloom covered candles.

  • Is the labeling action slow down the label contains Brandon nutritional information as well as the exact time of production.

  • This means it could be traced if there's ever a quality issue.

  • It's taken about one hour for these tomatoes to be harvested and can all that's needed is a tin opener on a recipe.

often considered to be a vegetable.

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